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Liberation day

"November 2001. A Zodiac inflatable slips away from a submarine off the North African coast. If he hadn't needed American citizenship so badly Nick Stone wouldn't have agreed to do this one last job, but the CIA's offer of a new life in the United States, and the chance to share it with Carrie, the woman he's fallen in love with, is one he cannot refuse." "The job seems simple enough for a man of his particular skills: infiltrate into the hostile and violent republic of Algeria, kill a money laundering local businessman, and bring back his severed head to the West. Stone isn't told why the man has to die like this, and he doesn't want to know. He just guesses it's got something to do with the democratic world's fightback after the terrible events of 11 September." "But as events unfold alarmingly fast, Stone realizes that by no means has he been told the full story - and that in reality the job has only just begun. Then comes the devastating news that Carrie, enraged by his broken promise never to work with the CIA again, has turned her back on him for ever." "Operating in the dangerous underworld of the south of France, where al-Qaeda has embarked on a panicked round-up of funds using the ancient banking system of hawalla, Stone is in at the deep end of a very dirty war. In the most daunting mission he has ever undertaken, as one bloody twist leads to another, Stone ultimately finds himself confronted by the most desperate dilemma a man could ever face."--Jacket.Read more...

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December 2001. A Zodiac inflatable slips away from a submarine off the Algerian coast. If he hadn't needed American citizenship so badly, Nick Stone wouldn't have agreed to do this one last job.Read more...

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By now, Andy McNab's readers know precisely what to expect from the flint-edged prose in which he couches his work: powerfully involving, no-nonsense plots, a considerable measure of suspense and violence and little that's too taxing to the grey cells. Nick Stone, McNab's tough protagonist, reluctantly agrees to do one final job: he is to infiltrate the Islamic Republic of Algeria, kill a highly dangerous money launderer and - wait for it - return with his severed head. Yes, this is a Sam Peckinpah movie refracted through the equally unsparing medium of the espionage thriller. The Al-Qaeda terrorist group will doubtless be making many appearances in thrillers from now on, but McNab's use of them in Liberation Day is both chilling and responsible.Read more...

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